Delicious LiveJournal Links for 11-9-2010

[andrewducker]

• Labour seem to be supporting the coalition government over the welfare/work changes
  (tags: welfare government uk)
• AOL looking to buy Yahoo. Does anyone care about _either_ of these companies any more???
  (tags: aol yahoo internet business)
• The Times’ Paywall and Newsletter Economics - the figures are actually worse than I thought.
  (tags: media newspapers business economics newspaper paywall journalism)
• And the Most Popular Way to Read an E-Book Is …
  (tags: ereader ebooks amazon kindle sony ipad technology)
• The most awesome Lego/Star Wars mash up ever. Only more awesome than that.
  (tags: video lego starwars)
• What comics can do that movies can't.
  (tags: comics movies warrenellis)
• French doctor's 'million-to-one' chance of catching baby who fell from balcony
  (tags: france children luck)
• Cooks Magazine, the apology Judith Griggs should have given. Hilarious from end to end.
  (tags: copyright funny)
• Lorem ipsum - amazing photography of calligraphic body art.
  (tags: art photography words)
• This is how I feel about correcting other people's grammar. Particularly the last sentence of the first paragraph
  (tags: awesome english grammar language linguistics)
• Reporting Sexual Harassment in SF/F
  (tags: assault rape sf fandom publishing conventions)
• Is News Corp about to kill off MySpace?
  (tags: myspace socialnetworking software web2.0)
• Is Apple planing to move to Light Peak?
  (tags: apple intel technology)
• 3 starts killing off 2G coverage
  (tags: mobile_phones 3g uk)
• Altruism gene associated with higher willingness to donate.
  (tags: altruism genetics behaviour psychology)
• The riddle of the NHS budget
  (tags: nhs budget money government uk)
• Government promises dramatic increase in transparency about contracts and costs.
  (tags: data transparency uk government)
• argest independent pilot's association to boycott full body scanners
  (tags: airplanes security_theatre usa)
• Majority of British people believe in control orders, using information obrained through torture and denying prisoners the vote.
  (tags: uk society)

Comments

I'm a doctor, Jim, not a mathematician

[drainboy.livejournal.com]

[Philippe Bensignor insisted he is no hero. "There's one chance in several dozen millions that someone was passing under the balcony when the baby fell."]

Maybe 1 in 30, if the street is particularly empty. Maybe 1 in 1, otherwise?

[hawkida.livejournal.com]

There's something broken about this post that is shrinking the text of everything that follows it - which affects my entire friends page. Could you investigate the html it contains, please?

[innerbrat]

From the grammar article:

Asking someone to give you free professional advice when they are not at work and just looking to enjoy casual conversation with their dry martini is, of course, total etiquette fail.

My opinion remains that if you somehow don't want to talk for hours about the subject matter and techniques of your job, no matter whether you're getting paid for it or not, then you're in the wrong job and need to get over the fact that other people find your work interesting.

[matgb]

Is News Corp about to kill off MySpace?

Didn't they already do that? Oh, sorry, no, the article means finally turn of the lights...

[octopoid-horror.livejournal.com]

The response to the Warren Ellis thing is "Zack Snyder"

However, I do find it generally slightly embarassing watching superhero movies, particularly high camp ones like X Men. It somehow just seems really silly.

[flickgc.livejournal.com]

I'm afraid that any vague agreement with the grammar chap died when I got to "Apparently someone killed his cat while saying “irregardless” alot" and really couldn't convince myself that it was ironic....

[pete stevens (from livejournal.com)]

A delicious feed (Yahoo! own delicious) asking if anyone cares about Yahoo. Next you'll be telling me that nobody uses flickr...